Caleb De Jong posts his catalog essay for the exhibition Temporal Shifts: Paintings by works by Craig Olson, Paul Behnke, and Anne Russinof, curated by Matthew Neil Gehring, on view at Flecker Gallery, Suffolk County Community College through February 28, 2012.

De Jong writes: "Craig Olson, Paul Behnke and Anne Russinof harness painting’s ability to arrest time, in their discrete yet complementary studio practices. The exhibition, Temporal Shifts, coalesces around a similarly resonant painterly language, one that revolves in part, but is not limited to the grid, to fields of color, or to an approach to mark making that is expansive and idiosyncratic. Rather, their language remains in service to a flatly rendered pictorial object."